Well, well down to Flickr. What to say about Flickr… I have an account. I have had one for the past several months. My account was required for a class in school. I used it to images automatically appear in my class blog. One might be wondering why I haven’t used that in my personal blog, well good question and my response- pure laziness. I would say lack of time because I never seem to have time to do the things I want to do, but it really doesn’t take that long to upload a photo to Flickr…
Speaking of time I barely put any time into this blog, which is sad because it isn’t like I don’t have anything to say, but it seems like I don’t make time or have time to really say what I want. Sometimes I have something I really want to say, but when I get a chance to write the thought is lost. Some of my posts I notice are pretty lame, as if rushed and lacking in creative flow. Some of my postings seem like even have a thought is there and what I really wanted to say was left in the nether. I feel as if sometimes I am simply forcing myself to write, which is also sad because I originally set up this blog to let my thoughts have some freedom to roam. Anyhoo, I think I am clearly off on a tangent.
So back to Flicr… Yeah, I really like Flickr. I have used it to post images and share with just my family, as well. You can easily set up the settings on your images to be public or just for your family and friends to see. If you set up your images for just freinds and family, you need to make sure you actually invite them so that they can actually see the images. Otherwise why set up your images for private viewing unless you just want to look at them yourself online and I don’t know print them, but that sounds kind of batty to me… Making an image public is a great way to not only share your images with the world, but necessary if you want Flickr to send the image to your own blog. This is a cool and easy way to upload images on the fly and have them appear in your blog.
Another cool thing about Flikr is that it is free. All you need to do is set up a Yahoo account. Which I guess might be cool for Yahoo as well because they get more subscribers to their services, like e-mail and all, which comes down to more people they can target for advertising. Okay, maybe I am being a bit cynical, but….
One last thing about Flikr before I drift back into the void. If you are worried about making images being public and losing your rights to the image, don’t be. You can set the your rights for the images and how those rights are viewed so that even if someone uses them you still retain all rights for the image.
Well, I think I have blabbed enough today. There is more I could say about Flikr, but I’ll let you explore for yourself some of the features I’ve mentioned as well as other features I didn’t go into like showing on a map where your image was taken.
Later. 